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From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner Kappa Sigma fraternity at Southgate Cabin, prior to 1914 (with James H. Southgate at center.) (Courtesy Duke Yearlook.) From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella Rose / Helen Heusner From Ella...

(The Rotarian, Summer 1929) Not sure of the exact location of this, but Jean Anderson noeds that it was at "Roxboro Road and the Eno River." She notes: "It was the Rotary Club, for example, that began a school lunch program in 1924 for poor children, made loans to high school boys to enable them to remain in school, and persuaded the YMCA to...

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Descendants relate that nine generations of the Evans family have occupied the weathered log house built by John Evans, Jr., ca. 1850. Evans son, Reuben, reported to have been born in the house, was about twelve years old when Union soldiers raided the family farm near the end of the Civil War. Among other items, peanuts belonging to the boy were...

When John Cabe’s fifth daughter, Rachel, married Moses McCown in 1813, Cabe helped the couple settle on the south bank of the Eno River near a site where the water drop was sufficient to power a mill. Rachel and Moses shortly established a mill that operated first as a tilt hammer for forging metal and later as a sawmill and a gristmill for...

An archetypal saddlebag plan is found in this two-room, story-and-a-half log house with an attached rear kitchen ell. One room or pen is located on either side of a central chimney and each has a separate entrance. Two families could thus live side by side, an arrangement commonly found in early tenant houses such as this one may have been. The...